Sweden time
The Swedish Era is a historical term and means the historical epoch of Swedish rule in northern Germany , which began with the intervention of the Swedish Empire in the Thirty Years' War in 1630 and ended with the Peace of Kiel in 1814 throughout northern Germany at the latest .
Other former Swedish dominions such as Finland , Estonia , Latvia , today 's Leningrad Oblast or Norway also write of a time in Sweden in their historiography .
Sweden time in northern Germany
Sweden tried to expand south in the 17th century. Due to the military strength of the Swedish army , the Nordic kingdom succeeded in conquering several non-contiguous areas in northern Germany and securing them politically. The principality of Pomerania , Bremen-Verden and Wismar were affected . The newly won Swedish territories were subject to the Swedish crown, but the Swedish king was formally an imperial prince in relation to the northern German territories and received them as an imperial fief from the Roman emperor .
The extent of the geographical zone of Swedish rule in northern Germany during the Swedish era changed several times due to wars. By 1720, after the end of the Great Northern War, the south-eastern part of Swedish Pomerania fell to Prussia and Bremen-Verden to Kurhannover . Swedish rule over Wismar ended de facto in 1803 when Sweden pledged the city to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for 99 years with the Malmö pledge agreement . The remaining area around Stralsund in Pomerania passed to Prussia as a result of the territorial reorganization in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars , which ended the Swedish era in northern Germany.
literature
- Helmut Backhaus: Pomerania in the Swedish Era: on the framework conditions for the Wismar Tribunal, Böhlau, 2003
- Nils Werner Fritzel: Der Stader Raum zur Schwedenzeit, Volume 27 of individual publications by the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, self-published by the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 1976, p. 11f
- Beate-Christine Fiedler: The administration of the duchies of Bremen and Verden in the Swedish period 1652–1712: Organization and nature of administration, Volume 29 of individual publications of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, ISSN 0585-0037, Volume 7 of publications from the City Archives Stade Stader History and homeland association, 1987